WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 257, 20 March 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

EARL'S DANCING DAUGHTER fliwi) A WEEK ENGAGEMENT. J London, Mare!) 9. Lidy Constance Stewart-Richardson, who was lately reported to have electrified Vienna with her dancing at the People's Opera House, has been engaged li.v the management of the Victoria Music llall, Broadway. New York. .She is to give two performances daily, including Sunday, and will receive a . salary of £1001)' a week. Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson is the daughter of the late Earl of Cromai'iie, and was married in 190-1 to Sir Edward Austin Stewart-Richardson, who was in Australia from 1881) to 11H12 as aide-de-camp to Lord Lamington during his liovernor-ihin of Queensland. LITTLE SLAVES OF PARIS For some time Parisian philanthropists have been endeavoring to check the ex-. ploitation of Italian and Spanish child labor by ''padrones," who import the children tinder the pretext that they are going to be apprenticed to big factories, where they will learn a good trade. As a matter of fact, the boys, ranging in age from 8 to 1G years, earn about Is 8d a day for the padrone in the glass factories at St. Denis and other places just outside j Paris; while they are herded in filthy. I dark, stuffy holes, dressed in rags and ] tatters, and fed on such refuse that their food, clothing and lodging cannot possibly cost more than 5 cents a day. They are beaten savagely by the padrones, and many of them die in consequence of kicks and blows and of the unhealthy work in the glass factories, while the survivors never receive the promised bonus. Owing to information received concerning these unfortunate little white slaves, the authorities have raided a number of padrones' establishments with a view to obtaining sufficient evidence to secure their conviction, or at least to be able to put a stop to their inhuman traffic. 'flier found the boys sleeping three in a bed, and there were no sheets on any of the indescribably uninviting beds. Most of the boys were suffering froni burns received while working in the factories, and their sores were bandaged with dirty rags. One child had lost three fingers from his right hand. Forty children, aged between 10 and 13, were taken from a single glass factory at St. Denis to the police station, to be questioned concerning, the ill-treatment they have undergone. M. Pierre Laval, the well-known barrister, and president of the Society for the Protection of Children, has lodged a formal charge against certain padrones for the exploitation of child labor and the 'ill-treatment of the bovs.